Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.